Helli Medhus

About me: Keyboard/piano player and composer. I'm a young (at least in comparison with many others) musician from St. Petersburg, Russia, who currently lives in Norway. I've been educated at Music Conservatory in St. Petersburg as classic piano player. During my education period I've played over 500 concerts, also featuring symphonic orchestra and in ensemble with other instruments. Have also played lead guitar, but had to stop doing it because of hand damage in 2000:( Still miss it. Besides my classical career I've been playing both hard rock and metal, and composed a whole lot myself, most instrumental music for keyboard and lead guitar, and some classical stuff. Moved to Norway in 2002, and had a little break from working with music due to different matters...After some years with very few hours with playing piano/keys I decided to start again and try to make something out of my qualities as keyboard player. My greatest inspiration have been classical composers, especially Dvorak, Rakhmaninov, Chopin and Bach; and metal bands as Children of Bodom, Dimmu Borgir, Megadeth and W.A.S.P. I found out that I write best music by combining classical and metal tones:) Some funny facts: right after i came to Norway, i won a competition as classic piano player with WHOLE 5000 NOK as prise:):) At this time I've got a lot of projects and things going on. Information about coming release of my new metal magazine, concerts in Norway with my bands, and working on our first demo will be added here on myspace along with progress in my projects. There will be more pictures and some songs added very soon.